Re: [PATCH] net: dsa: mt7530: increase reset hold time

From: Arınç ÜNAL
Date: Wed Mar 13 2024 - 11:05:25 EST


On 13.03.2024 16:13, Justin Swartz wrote:
On 2024-03-13 14:06, Arınç ÜNAL wrote:
On 13.03.2024 14:52, Justin Swartz wrote:

On 2024-03-13 10:59, Arınç ÜNAL wrote:
This ship has sailed anyway. Now the changes the first patch did must be
reverted too. I will deal with this from now on, you can stop sending
patches regarding this.

At least if the first patch isn't reverted, the approach used is
less likely to result in the problem occuring, IMHO.

I disagree that the previous approach is less likely to result in the
problem occurring. If you don't like the delay amount we agreed on, feel
free to express a higher amount.

I created and tested a patch to entertain your input about what you
thought could be a suitable hold period to address the problem, and it
appeared to work. The criteria being that the crystal frequency selection
was correct over 20 tests.

So if only the reset hold period is going to change, I'm good with what
you had suggested: 5000 - 5100 usec.

Ultimately the selection of this period should be guided by the timing
information provided in a datasheet or design guide from the manufacturer.

That's a good point, I agree.


If you, or anyone else, has such a document that provides this information
and is able to confirm or deny speculation about any/all timing periods
related to reset, please do so.

These are the documents I use to program this switch family. I did not
stumble upon a page going over this.

MT7621 Giga Switch Programming Guide v0.3:

https://github.com/vschagen/documents/blob/main/MT7621_ProgrammingGuide_GSW_v0_3.pdf

MT7531 switch chip datasheet:

https://wiki.banana-pi.org/Banana_Pi_BPI-R64#Documents



I also disagree on introducing a solution that is in addition to another
solution, both of which fix the same problem.

I'm not sure I understand why you say that. These patches were intended
to be applied exclusively, or in other words: in isolation - not together.

Although if they were applied together, it wouldn't really matter.

For the record, I've only continued to keep this thread alive in the
hope that some solution to this problem will make it into mainline
eventually.

I don't care if it was my original patch, the subsequent patch, or a
later patch provided by you or someone else. :)

I think you've missed that your patch is already applied. And it won't be
reverted for reasons explained by Paolo in this mail thread.

https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/2920dd92b980

So if your patch here were to be applied too, the final mt7530.c would have
the LEDs disabled AND before reset deassertion delay increased.

Arınç